“Hiking in the winter is special because there are fewer people out,” Fuller said. “There are no bugs bothering you, no black flies, no mosquitoes, and just the beautiful landscape in winter.

They had made it to a more packed-out hiking trail and were trying to self-rescue. Conservation officers located them at 8:38 p.m. near the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, a Dartmouth-owned mountain ...

Auburn, Massachusetts, residents Adrian Colon, 17, and Andrew Lucier, 18, were hiking the Snapper Trail without snowshoes or headlamps, and their phone batteries had gotten low. During the initial ...